TAU Ventures

TAU Ventures is an early-stage focused venture capital fund affiliated with Tel Aviv University, investing in the next generation of impactful home-grown technology companies. At the heart of the start-up nation, TAU Ventures invests the first capital into startups and is dedicated to helping them transform their ideas into global businesses. TAU Ventures cultivates an innovation ecosystem by combining the resources and global network of Tel Aviv University, strong industry connections, and a supportive home-base for founders. Together with its world-leading team of experienced mentors, TAU Ventures empowers startups in their critical, early steps. At its 1000 sq meter co-working office space located in Tel Aviv, the team works shoulder to shoulder with their portfolio companies, nurturing their growth by drawing on the strength of its innovation ecosystem on a daily basis.
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Shira Gal

VP of Business Development

34 past transactions

GlobeKeeper LLC

Seed Round in 2018
GlobeKeeper is a real-time collaboration platform for security personnel that Improves officers' response time by 60%. GlobeKeeper introduces military-grade security and encryption into civilian communication devices. GlobeKeeper provides situational awareness by enabling users to transmit live video/audio streaming, share files, text messages and pictures - all in real-time and in a secure environment. By taking existing devices (cameras, video, GPS, and Bluetooth hardware) and integrating our secure communication protocols, GlobeKeeper transfer them into essential resources for mission operations, case management, and resource control.

InnerPlant

Pre Seed Round in 2019
InnerPlant, Inc. manufactures genetically adapted living plant sensors. Its product InnerTomato a proprietary tomato plant that combines biotechnology, big data, and the internet of things and alerts farmers optically when it’s thirsty or sick, short of nutrients, and under attack by pests or fungi, they show different colors that can be seen by optical devices, such as smartphones. InnerPlant, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Davis, California.

Treebute.io

Seed Round in 2018
Treebute is an AI cloud-based global platform for scientific knowledge navigation, discovery and trade.

Castor

Pre Seed Round in 2018
CASTOR’s proprietary technology helps manufacturers assess how to apply industrial 3D printing to their production processes. By providing a comprehensive technical and cost-savings assessment for a full bill of materials, designers, NPI managers and production engineers have the critical information they need to effectively and efficiently make machine parts.

Swimm

Series A in 2021
Silos can sneak in to even the most agile of teams and create needless delays on essential projects. Chasing down information keeps teams out of sync. But onboarding, outdated documents, or project switching should never slow a project down. Swimm is a SaaS company built to make the development process fast and smooth with smart docs and continuous documentation. Teams use Swimm to create focused and engaging tutorials that help them share knowledge on the codebase. Thanks to Swimm's unique auto-sync technology, tutorials remain fresh and up-to-date even if the code changes.

Gaviti

Series A in 2022
Gaviti is a receivable management solution that empowers the receivable collections task owners. Gaviti helps companies to accelerate cash-flow, reduce write-offs and increase productivity X10. This is achieved via: Visualization - quickly understand your receivables with a clear dashboard and insights screen. Automation - efficiently engage all your delinquent clients with smart, personalized workflows. Optimizatione - improve results over time with data-driven collections process optimization.

SkillSet Israel

Seed Round in 2022
Skillset helps you make better, fairer, and more efficient hire decisions combining a technology solution with grounded theory and practice. Skillset replaces the traditional resume with an instant and fast online process that evaluates the parameters for predicting success, in which anyone can showcase his or her abilities without hiding behind a dull resume.

Medorion

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Medorion's SaaS solution enables healthcare organizations to create, manage, and measure highly personalized communication plans using Behavioral Science best practices and insights derived from clinical parameters in claims data. The solution transforms what is traditionally a cumbersome point solution-based process into intuitive and straightforward actions that allow Health Plans to personalize, streamline, and optimize their communication plans.

Treebute.io

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Treebute is an AI cloud-based global platform for scientific knowledge navigation, discovery and trade.

Medorion

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Medorion's SaaS solution enables healthcare organizations to create, manage, and measure highly personalized communication plans using Behavioral Science best practices and insights derived from clinical parameters in claims data. The solution transforms what is traditionally a cumbersome point solution-based process into intuitive and straightforward actions that allow Health Plans to personalize, streamline, and optimize their communication plans.

Labelbox, Inc.

Series C in 2021
Labelbox is a collaborative training data platform for machine learning applications. Rather than requiring companies to build their own expensive and incomplete homegrown tools to create or manage training data, Labelbox created the world’s first training data platform that acts as a central hub for data science teams to create and manage training data with internal or external labeling teams. Better ways to input and manage data means higher quality training data and more accurate machine-learning models.

InnerPlant

Seed Round in 2019
InnerPlant, Inc. manufactures genetically adapted living plant sensors. Its product InnerTomato a proprietary tomato plant that combines biotechnology, big data, and the internet of things and alerts farmers optically when it’s thirsty or sick, short of nutrients, and under attack by pests or fungi, they show different colors that can be seen by optical devices, such as smartphones. InnerPlant, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Davis, California.

Futora

Venture Round in 2021
Futora, formerly called Modelity Marketplace, aims to enable financial institutions, retail banks in particular, to provide clients from all market segments with a vast selection of tailor-made, on-the-fly financial products with notional amounts as low as 5,000 USD. With its fully digitized solution, a buy-side organization can issue its own products as deposits, notes, savings plans, or other financial instrument wrappers, while automatically hedging the exposure with third-party investment banks. In order to fulfill this vision, Futora utilizes its award-winning AI-based technology, which manages the full lifecycle of the financial product, from pre-trade ideation to maturity, along with automatic connectivity to the investment banks.

SkillSet Israel

Seed Round in 2022
Skillset helps you make better, fairer, and more efficient hire decisions combining a technology solution with grounded theory and practice. Skillset replaces the traditional resume with an instant and fast online process that evaluates the parameters for predicting success, in which anyone can showcase his or her abilities without hiding behind a dull resume.

Castor

Seed Round in 2019
CASTOR’s proprietary technology helps manufacturers assess how to apply industrial 3D printing to their production processes. By providing a comprehensive technical and cost-savings assessment for a full bill of materials, designers, NPI managers and production engineers have the critical information they need to effectively and efficiently make machine parts.

Gaviti

Seed Round in 2020
Gaviti is a receivable management solution that empowers the receivable collections task owners. Gaviti helps companies to accelerate cash-flow, reduce write-offs and increase productivity X10. This is achieved via: Visualization - quickly understand your receivables with a clear dashboard and insights screen. Automation - efficiently engage all your delinquent clients with smart, personalized workflows. Optimizatione - improve results over time with data-driven collections process optimization.

Castor

Seed Round in 2021
CASTOR’s proprietary technology helps manufacturers assess how to apply industrial 3D printing to their production processes. By providing a comprehensive technical and cost-savings assessment for a full bill of materials, designers, NPI managers and production engineers have the critical information they need to effectively and efficiently make machine parts.

Medorion

Venture Round in 2021
Medorion's SaaS solution enables healthcare organizations to create, manage, and measure highly personalized communication plans using Behavioral Science best practices and insights derived from clinical parameters in claims data. The solution transforms what is traditionally a cumbersome point solution-based process into intuitive and straightforward actions that allow Health Plans to personalize, streamline, and optimize their communication plans.

InnerPlant

Seed Round in 2021
InnerPlant, Inc. manufactures genetically adapted living plant sensors. Its product InnerTomato a proprietary tomato plant that combines biotechnology, big data, and the internet of things and alerts farmers optically when it’s thirsty or sick, short of nutrients, and under attack by pests or fungi, they show different colors that can be seen by optical devices, such as smartphones. InnerPlant, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Davis, California.

XTEND

Pre Seed Round in 2018
XTEND develops solutions that allow people to interact with drones and other unmanned machine technologies. The company’s technology enables humans to extend themselves into the action by allowing them to virtually sit inside the drone for various tactical missions. Designed for both indoor and outdoor uses, XTEND’s technology can also be used to gamify real-life activities.

Castor

Pre Seed Round in 2018
CASTOR’s proprietary technology helps manufacturers assess how to apply industrial 3D printing to their production processes. By providing a comprehensive technical and cost-savings assessment for a full bill of materials, designers, NPI managers and production engineers have the critical information they need to effectively and efficiently make machine parts.

GlobeKeeper LLC

Seed Round in 2018
GlobeKeeper is a real-time collaboration platform for security personnel that Improves officers' response time by 60%. GlobeKeeper introduces military-grade security and encryption into civilian communication devices. GlobeKeeper provides situational awareness by enabling users to transmit live video/audio streaming, share files, text messages and pictures - all in real-time and in a secure environment. By taking existing devices (cameras, video, GPS, and Bluetooth hardware) and integrating our secure communication protocols, GlobeKeeper transfer them into essential resources for mission operations, case management, and resource control.

Swimm

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Silos can sneak in to even the most agile of teams and create needless delays on essential projects. Chasing down information keeps teams out of sync. But onboarding, outdated documents, or project switching should never slow a project down. Swimm is a SaaS company built to make the development process fast and smooth with smart docs and continuous documentation. Teams use Swimm to create focused and engaging tutorials that help them share knowledge on the codebase. Thanks to Swimm's unique auto-sync technology, tutorials remain fresh and up-to-date even if the code changes.

Swimm

Seed Round in 2021
Silos can sneak in to even the most agile of teams and create needless delays on essential projects. Chasing down information keeps teams out of sync. But onboarding, outdated documents, or project switching should never slow a project down. Swimm is a SaaS company built to make the development process fast and smooth with smart docs and continuous documentation. Teams use Swimm to create focused and engaging tutorials that help them share knowledge on the codebase. Thanks to Swimm's unique auto-sync technology, tutorials remain fresh and up-to-date even if the code changes.

VoicEncode

Pre Seed Round in 2019
VoicEncode Ltd offers AI-enabled automatic speech recognition engine that enables machine learning and speech2vec algorithms to identify and understand various languages, accents, regional dialects, and speaking conditions. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

ArcusTeam

Pre Seed Round in 2019
ArcusTeam has developed an automated platform for detecting vulnerabilities on any IoT software. ArcusTeam aims to improve the security of IoT software during development and after production, allowing the IoT industry to confidently innovate in the software they build, as well as in the third-party supply chain components integrated into their environments.

Loola

Seed Round in 2018
Loola enables content creators, publishers and brands to introduce new interactive live video content experiences over their various social channels.

Cyabra

Seed Round in 2018
Cyabra Strategy Ltd. designs and develops an online platform to protect brands and politicians against misleading discourse on social networks distributed through the use of false identities. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.

Hoopo Systems Ltd

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Hoopo Systems Ltd manufactures geolocation technology solutions. Its solutions help companies track specific assets in areas, such as vehicle dealer yards, parking lots, cattle ranches, car dealerships, ports and harbors, airports, and other asset-dense areas, as well as pallet tracking. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Ra'annana, Israel with an additional office in Santa Monica, California.

Hoopo Systems Ltd

Seed Round in 2019
Hoopo Systems Ltd manufactures geolocation technology solutions. Its solutions help companies track specific assets in areas, such as vehicle dealer yards, parking lots, cattle ranches, car dealerships, ports and harbors, airports, and other asset-dense areas, as well as pallet tracking. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Ra'annana, Israel with an additional office in Santa Monica, California.

ArcusTeam

Pre Seed Round in 2018
ArcusTeam has developed an automated platform for detecting vulnerabilities on any IoT software. ArcusTeam aims to improve the security of IoT software during development and after production, allowing the IoT industry to confidently innovate in the software they build, as well as in the third-party supply chain components integrated into their environments.

Youtiligent

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Youtiligent's machine learning based technology monitors the electric pattern of the un-connected (“dumb”) device and converts it into meaningful business insights. The company creates a new way of communication between vendors and manufacturers to their customers' appliances, enabling a real-time understanding and predictive learning of the devices supplies needs and services. The company enables it's customers across multiple sectors, as food & beverage, industrial and logistics, to base their decisions on real-time data usage, saving costs and improving efficiency.